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Fireworks AI discloses new breach after cloud provider hack

AI infrastructure startup Fireworks has disclosed a new security breach in which attackers accessed its development machines after breaching a third-party cloud provider.

FireWorks provides a high-performance inference platform for developers who want to deploy and run open-source artificial intelligence models (such as Mistral, Meta’s Llama, or Google’s Gemma) without worrying about hardware bottlenecks and complex infrastructure tasks.

The company notified law enforcement and customers of another security incident in early October after attackers accessed environment variables containing API keys and tokens stored as secrets for a limited number of accounts.

SEGA newsletter data breach exposes 2.2 million email addresses

Japanese gaming giant SEGA has disclosed that a data breach at its third-party newsletter provider, ARARA, exposed the email addresses of 2.2 million newsletter subscribers.

The company says the exposed data also includes 92,300 records with additional information yet to be determined. The breach affects 11 newsletters linked to SEGA and SEGA Fave products and services.

The investigation found that the compromised data did not include customer names, dates of birth, gender, addresses, phone numbers, credit card details, or account passwords.

Meteors don’t just burn up. What really happens is far more violent

Scientists have uncovered seven surprising stages that space rocks go through as they hurtle toward Earth, revealing that melting and violent fragmentation, rather than simple evaporation, determine their fate. The discovery could help explain why meteorites scatter across the ground and how dangerous asteroids explode in Earth’s atmosphere.

Scientists have gained a clearer understanding of what happens when rocks from space plunge into Earth’s atmosphere and survive the journey to the ground. After examining video recordings and photographs of 75 meteorite falls, researchers identified seven stages that describe how these objects transform into meteorites. Their analysis reveals that melting and breaking apart play a much greater role than previously believed in determining how much material a rock loses, how quickly it slows down, and where its fragments eventually land. The findings were published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

“We used to think that solid rocks would evaporate from the enormous heat and brilliant light generated in the air collision,” said meteor astronomer and lead author Dr. Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center. “We found instead that first melting and then fragmentation controls how a rock loses mass.”